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(04/08/21)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

Welcome to another Great Hump Day Quiz!

We’re always trying to add more people to our quiz gang, so check out how to hide your answers, pop them in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

Where do the questions come from?

I found a mysterious old box of trivial pursuit, with even more trivial pursuits stuffed inside. It is a treasure trove of quiz questions, and all of them really old. :slightly_smiling_face: Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special. :+1:

Piecing together a few bits and bobs, there were three sets, and a couple of the instructions. One is a Genus Edition, dated 2001, and the other the 20th Anniversary one, 2004. There’s also another old style board and questions in there that looks/smells quite a bit older. That’s the box they’re all stuffed in, and that has ©1983 printed on it. No instructions, so not sure if that’s accurate. That one says it’s a Master Game Genus Edition.

(Edit: Now with an added sprinkling of more recent questions too :+1::slightly_smiling_face:)

So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. Which independent European country is located between Spain and France?

  2. What are you most likely to buy in London’s Billingsgate market - meat, fish or antuiques?

  3. What is the largest inland body of water in the world?

  4. Which island in the Bristol Channel is an important habitat for seabirds, including puffins and Manx shearwaters?

  5. How many points are there on the Statue of Liberty’s crown?

💗Entertainment

  1. Who collaborated with Eminem on the 2010 single “Love the Way You Lie”?

  2. Which British designer handbag brand features a Scottie dog-shaped logo?

  3. Philip Seymour Hoffman was Dustin Hoffman’s nephew. True or false?

  4. Which long-disbanded group reunited to perform during Bill Clinton’s 1993 inaugural ball?

  5. Who did Clayton Moore portray in the movies and on TV?

💛 History

  1. Which West Country Elizabethan stately home, set in 9,000 acres of parkland, is the seat of the Marquess of Bath?

  2. Which of these Welsh symbols was used first on the reverse of UK £1 coins - leek, daffodil or dragon?

  3. Henry VIII’s sister Mary was, by marriage, queen of which European country?

  4. Who was the 16th president of the US?

  5. What was Winston Churchill’s wife’s name?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Scholarly interest in which supernatural cult-classic TV series spawned a peer-reviewed academic journal with the title Slayage?

  2. Van Gogh’s ear was severed following a fight with which French Post-Impressionist artist?

  3. What’s a billet-doux?

  4. Who was the title character in The Merchant of Venice?

  5. What Frederick Forsyth novel chronicles the toppling of an African government by mercenaries?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. Which species of shark has a range of vision of nearly 360 degrees?

  2. Saponification is the process for making which common household item?

  3. What are you afraid of if you suffer from acrophobia?

  4. What’s the winter counterpart to estivation?

  5. What’s the world’s largest and heaviest mammal?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What is the distance of the running portion in an Olympic triathlon?

  2. What colour are the polka dots on the white jersey awarded to the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France?

  3. What do participants wear in the South Pole 300 challenge, a hot-sauna-to-frigid-air feat that boasts a 300-degree temperature change?

  4. Which southern US delicacy, often served at breakfast, is made from hominy, a form of dried maize or corn?

  5. What is an off-break ball that’s bowled with a leg-break action?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MsSubExperimenter 20½ 3 3 4 2 5 3½
@SexInTheCity 20 3 4 4 3 5 1
@MrsLovett77 18½ 2 4 4 3 3 2½
@Peitho 17½ 3 3 4 1 3 3½
@WillC 17½ 3 4 3 3 3 1½
@Ian_Chimp 16 2 2 4 3 3 2
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —

  1. Andorra | 1. Rihanna
  2. Fish | 2. Radley
  3. Caspian Sea | 3. False
  4. Lundy | 4. Fleetwood Mac
    (They performed “Don’t Stop”)
  5. Seven | 5. The Lone Ranger
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Longleat House | 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  7. Leek
    (The leek was first used in 1985, the dragon in 1995, and the daffodil in 2013) | 2. Paul Gauguin
  8. France
    (she was married to King Louis XII from 1514 until his death the following year) | 3. A love-letter
  9. Abraham Lincoln | 4. Antonio
  10. Clementine | 5. The Dogs of War
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Hammerhead | 1. 10km (6.2miles)
  12. Soap | 2. Red
  13. Heights | 3. Nothing but boots
    (Challengers dart outside stark-naked, except for footwear)
  14. Hibernation | 4. Grits
  15. Blue Whale | 5. A googly
    16.
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